Vietnam Arrests Dissident Blogger

By

James Hookway

Dec. 28, 2012 5:42 a.m. ET

Vietnamese police have detained one of the country's best-known dissidents and bloggers, raising the stakes in the Communist-run nation's crackdown on Internet criticism of its one-party rule and potentially worsening the country's relations with the United States and other important trading partners.

State-run media Friday reported that lawyer Le Quoc Quan was arrested on his way to drop his daughter off at school in Hanoi on Thursday. In a telephone interview, his wife, Nguyen Thi Thu Hien said he was arrested at about 8...